Loading assets in AS3 and Flash

Loading up assets can be a pain to track so this set of code aims to simplify that. Need to check it out later though.
AYAN RAY | AS3 / Flash: Introducing the AssetLoader Class
In Actionscript 3, there are many different ways to load external assets from the Internet. Unfortunately, this can become tiresome to find [...]

Animated Skins in Flex

Very neat. Very cool. You have to check it out if only to see dancing Gingerbread men in Flex…
Tink » Blog Archive » Seamless Animated Skins in Flex

In Joey Lotts session on styling Flex at FOTB (where he did a great job), one of the attendees asked about animated skins.
There’s
obviously many ways to [...]

Flash CS3 Open Source “Liquid Components” by Byte Array

I am just about to wrap up a project using Flash CS3 and… I wish I saw this earlier…
Liquid Components for Flash CS3 [ by Didier Brun ] < ByteArray.org
The “Liquid Components” have been created for the Flash people, freelance coders and designers who wish to integrate fully skinnable components in their website, [...]

AS3 URL class

Not having access to the mx URL utils with Flash (though I haven’t looked at the possibility just yet) I found this. Could be quite helpful!
AS3 – URL Class | Manfred Weber`s Weblog
I could not find it in the net so I hacked something together quickly. A simple URL class that parses an url string.

Problems using navigateToURL

Was just dealing with this… must check out!
Problems using navigateToURL – aron / philipp development blog

Hi there… we’ve been busy these past couple of days so there
wasn’t much time for new posts – sorry. But here is a little update.
While developing a flash website (AS3 & SWFObject2.0)
that heavily depended on opening URLs in a new [...]

Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices

Coding Conventions – Flex SDK – Confluence
This document lays out the coding standards for writing open-source Flex framework components in ActionScript 3. Adhering to these standards makes the source code look consistent, well-organized, and professional.
Some of these standards are completely arbitrary, since there is not always a “best way” to code. Nevertheless, in the interest [...]

Actionscript 3 Excel library

Adobe – Flex Extension
An Actionscript 3 library for reading and writing Excel files. Currently reading numbers, text, and formulas from Excel version 2.0-2003 and writing numbers, text, and dates to Excel 2.0 is supported. No server-side help is needed.